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The Economics of Patent Backlog
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan - 2016
Patent offices around the world face massive backlogs of applications, which threatens to slow down the pace of technological progress. However, economists lack analytical tools to tackle the issue. This paper provides a model of patent backlogs inspired by the literature on traffic congestion....
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A Test of the Monopoly Pricing Hypothesis of Patents
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Zhou, Ling - 2021
markups for patent-protected products. Using an original dataset that links a broad range of consumer products to the patents … about one year before patent expiry, is larger for more important patents and is more pronounced in more competitive product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244339
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Productivity and Propensity : The Two Faces of the R&D-Patent Relationship
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan - 2011
a low number of patents per unit of R&D in one country yet actually be more productive than the same industry in another …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132788
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AI-Generated Inventions : Implications for the Patent System
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Jaffe, Adam B.; Wasserman, … - 2023
allowing patents on AI-generated inventions, including changes to the patent examination process, possible increase in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356856
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Immigration and Inventor Productivity
Pellegrino, Gabriele; Penner, Orion B.; Piguet, Etienne; … - 2021
inventors listed in patent applications. Using machine learning techniques to identify inventors across patents uniquely, we are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249919
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Low-quality Patents in the Eye of the Beholder : Evidence from Multiple Examiners
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan - 2016
Low-quality patents are of considerable concern to businesses operating in patent-dense markets. There are two pathways … by which low-quality patents may be issued: the patent office may apply systematically a standard that is too lenient … (low inventive step threshold); or the patent office may grant patents that are, in fact, below its own threshold (so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456431
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Patent Citation Data in Social Science Research : Overview and Best Practices
Jaffe, Adam B. - 2016
The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of patent citation data in social science research. Facilitated by digitization of the patent data and increasing computing power, a community of practice has grown up that has developed methods for using these data to: measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456804
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Are Patent Fees Effective at Weeding out Low-quality Patents?
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan - 2014
-in-differences regressions suggest that the increase in fees led to a weeding out of low-quality patents. About 14 per cent of patents in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457881
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Decentralising the Patent System
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan - 2019
This paper proposes a substantive re-think of the modern patent system. The patent system has come under intensive criticism in the past, and many scholars have proposed ways to improve it. Ideas for improvement include, e.g., prior-art bounties, contracting out examination and dynamic fee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863748
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Technology Protectionism and the Patent System : Strategic Technologies in China
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan - 2020
-foreign bias in the issuance of patents in 'strategic' technology areas. Foreigners are about 50 percent more likely to be refused …
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